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Five centuries before Columbus arrived, migrants were spreading across North America, carrying their culture with them and mixing with those they encountered in new places.
'Normal' body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find the trend extends to Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon – but why?
A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced which of our ancient ancestors lived there, with what way of life.
Artefacts suggest a ‘great leap’, a recent evolution of modern intelligence. Fossils and DNA argue that’s an illusion.
As US protesters deface monuments of once revered leaders, they are drawing from an ancient tradition used by both marginalized people and those in power.
Recognizing the influence of evolution on behavior and gender norms suggests ways to reduce gender inequality in leadership in the real world.
The Zapotec people of southern Mexico have always relied on each other to solve problems when the government can't, or won't, help. That's proving to be a pretty effective pandemic response.
The stories people tell about welfare rarely match up with the stories told by people actually receiving aid.
Feel like time has come to a standstill? The coronavirus crisis has prompted us to be more creative with our relations to time.
Thinking of SARS-CoV-2 as an invisible enemy with an evil personality and humanlike motivations is a natural offshoot of the way people evolved to anthropomorphize so as not to overlook threats.
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Elephants don't have the enzyme that allows humans to metabolize alcohol. This means that anecdotes about elephants getting drunk from rotten fruit may very well be true.
History shows that behavioural factors play a major role in slowing and stopping disease spread.
Haji-Daoud Nabi was a lifelong friend, who helped inspire my research in Afghanistan on how violent events shape people's sense of community. I never thought my work would one day apply at home in NZ.
DNA evidence from the Himba society in Namibia overturns ideas about genetic paternity, and about what it means to be a father.
The natural world is full of intriguing clues.
Olive oil, grapes and fish. There's a lot to love about the Mediterranean diet but focusing on it might be a way to exclude other healthy and global diets.
Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
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Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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British Academy Research Fellow, Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta
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Professor of Anthropology, Saint Louis University – Madrid
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities, University of New England
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Chair professor, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
